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The trustworthiness of orbital period analyses of eclipsing binaries strictly depends on the correctness of the observed mid-eclipse time determination, as well the reliability of its uncertainty estimation. The majority of them has been…

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We present a new algorithm -- Eclipsing Binary Automated Solver (EBAS), to analyse lightcurves of eclipsing binaries. The algorithm is designed to analyse large numbers of lightcurves, and is therefore based on the relatively fast EBOP…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Omer Tamuz , Tsevi Mazeh , Pierre North

We consider the difference of convex (DC) optimization problem subject to box constraints. Utilizing epsilon-subdifferentials of DC components of the objective, we develop a new method for finding global solutions to this problem. The…

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We consider control constrained optimal control problems governed by parameterized stationary Maxwell's system with the Gauss's law. The parameters enter through dielectric, magnetic permeability, and charge density. Moreover, the parameter…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Harbir Antil , Tran Nhan Tam Quyen

We made a comparative analysis of numerical methods for multidimensional optimization. The main parameter is a number of computations of the test function to reach necessary accuracy, as it is computationally "slow". For complex functions,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-09 Ivan L. Andronov , Maria G. Tkachenko

In this paper, we propose a new approach to model reduction of parameterized partial differential equations (PDEs) based on the concept of adaptive reduced bases. The presented approach is particularly suited for large-scale nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Liqian Peng , Kamran Mohseni

The mass discrepancy problem, observed in high-mass stars within eclipsing binaries, highlights systematic differences between dynamical and evolutionary mass estimates, challenging the accuracy of stellar evolution models. We aim to…

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In this paper, we develop a novel radial epiderivative-based line search methods for solving nonsmooth and nonconvex box-constrained optimization problems. The rationale for employing the concept of radial epiderivatives is that they…

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Estimating the direction of arrival (DOA) of sources is an important problem in aerospace and vehicular communication, localization and radar. In this paper, we consider a challenging multi-source DOA estimation task, where the receiving…

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Interferometric measurements are essential to constrain models of stellar systems, by spatially resolving angular distances and diameters well below the classical diffraction limit. In this work, we describe the interferometric module of…

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Eclipsing binaries are vital for directly determining stellar parameters without reliance on models or scaling relations. Spectroscopically derived parameters of detached and semi-detached binaries allow us to determine component masses…

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Determining the expansion of the universe, i.e. the Hubble constant (H0) to better than 2% is required in order to understand the nature of dark energy. However, the two most accurate methods to do it, the cosmic microwave background and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-15 N. Nardetto

The recently introduced non-iterative imaging method entitled \enquote{direct sampling method} (DSM) is known to be fast, robust, and effective for inverse scattering problems in the multi-static configuration but fails when applied to the…

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Difference-of-Convex (DC) minimization, referring to the problem of minimizing the difference of two convex functions, has been found rich applications in statistical learning and studied extensively for decades. However, existing methods…

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The recovery of images from the observations that are degraded by a linear operator and further corrupted by Poisson noise is an important task in modern imaging applications such as astronomical and biomedical ones. Gradient-based…

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The precise measurement of the masses and radii of stars in eclipsing binary systems provides a window into uncertain processes in stellar evolution, especially mixing at convective boundaries. Recently, these data have been used to…

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This paper details a methodology to transcribe an optimal control problem into a nonlinear program for generation of the trajectories that optimize a given functional by approximating only the highest order derivatives of a given system's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Thomas L. Ahrens , Ian M. Down , Manoranjan Majji

This paper investigates a numerical probabilistic method for the solution of some semilinear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs in short). The numerical scheme is based on discrete time approximation for solutions of systems…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-21 Achref Bachouch , Mohamed Anis Ben Lasmar , Anis Matoussi , Mohamed Mnif

We focus here on a class of fourth-order parabolic equations that can be written as a system of second-order equations by introducing an auxiliary variable. We design a novel second-order fully discrete mixed finite element method to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Sana Keita , Abdelaziz Beljadid , Yves Bourgault

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in leveraging deep learning and neural networks to address scientific problems, particularly in solving partial differential equations (PDEs). However, many neural network-based methods…

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